The Arabic script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system / / edited by Meikal Mumin, Kees Versteegh |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Brill, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (420 p.) |
Disciplina | 492.7/11096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MuminMeikal
VersteeghKees <1961-> |
Collana | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Arabic language - Writing
Arabic alphabet |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 90-04-25680-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | section I. General problems of Arabic-script based traditions -- section II. North Africa -- section III. West Africa -- section IV. East Africa -- section V. South Africa. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465034603321 |
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The Arabic script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system / / edited by Meikal Mumin, Kees Versteegh |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Brill, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (420 p.) |
Disciplina | 492.7/11096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MuminMeikal
VersteeghKees <1961-> |
Collana | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Arabic language - Writing
Arabic alphabet |
ISBN | 90-04-25680-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | section I. General problems of Arabic-script based traditions -- section II. North Africa -- section III. West Africa -- section IV. East Africa -- section V. South Africa. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789019903321 |
Boston : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
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The Arabic script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system / / edited by Meikal Mumin, Kees Versteegh |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Brill, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (420 p.) |
Disciplina | 492.7/11096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MuminMeikal
VersteeghKees <1961-> |
Collana | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Arabic language - Writing
Arabic alphabet |
ISBN | 90-04-25680-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | section I. General problems of Arabic-script based traditions -- section II. North Africa -- section III. West Africa -- section IV. East Africa -- section V. South Africa. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811807303321 |
Boston : , : Brill, , 2014 | ||
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The Arabic script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system / / Edited by Meikal Mumin, Kees Versteegh |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Brill, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (420 p.) |
Disciplina | 492.7/11096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MuminMeikal
VersteeghKees <1961-> |
Collana | Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Arabic language - Writing
Arabic alphabet |
ISBN |
9789004256804
9004256806 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter / Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh -- Introduction / Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh -- The Type and Spread of Arabic Script / Peter T. Daniels -- The Arabic Script in Africa: Understudied Literacy / Meikal Mumin -- Preliminary Notes on Tuareg in Arabic Script from Niger / Maarten Kossmann and Ramada Elghamis -- Writing ‘Shelha’ in New Media: Emergent Non-Arabic Literacy in Southwestern Algeria / Lameen Souag -- Old Kanembu and Kanuri in Arabic script: Phonology through the graphic system / Dmitry Bondarev -- Influence of Arabic Poetry on the Composition and Dating of Fulfulde Jihad Poetry in Yola (Nigeria) / Anneke Breedveld -- West African Ajami in the New World (Hausa, Fulfulde, Mande languages) / Nikolay Dobronravin -- Fula and the Ajami Writing System in the Haalpulaar Society of Fuuta Tooro (Senegal And Mauritania): A Specific ‘Restricted Literacy’ / Marie-Ève Humery -- Ajami Scripts for Mande Languages / Valentin Vydrin -- Manding Ajami Samples: Mandinka and Bamana / Valentin Vydrin and Gérard Dumestre -- West African Scripts and Arabic-Script Orthographies in Socio-Political Context / Andy Warren-Rothlin -- Chimi:ni in Arabic script: Examples from Brava poetry / Bana Banafunzi and Alessandra Vianello -- Swahili Documents from Congo (19th Century): Variation in Orthography / Xavier Luffin -- Akhi patia kalamu: Writing Swahili Poetry in Arabic Script / Clarissa Vierke -- Revisiting al-Qawl al-matīn: A sociolinguistically engineered Arabic-Afrikaans text / Muhammed Haron -- A Remarkable Document in Arabic-Afrikaans: The Election Pamphlet of 1884 / Kees Versteegh -- Index / Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910957606503321 |
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The cradle of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (417 p.) |
Disciplina | 409.6 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BothaRudolf P
KnightChris <1942-> |
Collana | Studies in the evolution of language |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Historical linguistics - Africa Anthropological linguistics - Africa Sociolinguistics - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-26861-9
9786612268618 0-19-156767-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; List of plates; List of maps; List of abbreviations; Notes on the contributors; 1. Introduction: perspectives on the evolution of language in Africa; 2. Earliest personal ornaments and their significance for the origin of language debate; 3. Reading the artifacts: gleaning language skills from the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa; 4. Red ochre, body painting, and language: interpreting the Blombos ochre; 5. Theoretical underpinnings of inferences about language evolution: the syntax used at Blombos Cave
6. Fossil cues to the evolution of speech7. Evidence against a genetic-based revolution in language 50,000 years ago; 8. A "language-free" explanation for differences between the European Middle and Upper Paleolithic Record; 9. Diversity in languages, genes, and the language faculty; 10. How varied typologically are the languages of Africa?; 11. What click languages can and can't tell us about language origins; 12. Social origins: sharing, exchange, kinship; 13. As well as words: Congo Pygmy hunting, mimicry, and play 14. Sexual selection models for the emergence of symbolic communication: why they should be reversed15. Language, ochre, and the rule of law; References; Index; Contents: The Prehistory of Language |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454862503321 |
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
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The cradle of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | xviii, 386 p., [12] p. : ill., maps |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BothaRudolf P
KnightChris <1942-> |
Collana | Studies in the evolution of language |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Historical linguistics - Africa Anthropological linguistics - Africa Sociolinguistics - Africa |
ISBN |
1-383-04519-4
0-19-156767-1 1-282-26861-9 9786612268618 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795751003321 |
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
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The cradle of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | xviii, 386 p., [12] p. : ill., maps |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BothaRudolf P
KnightChris <1942-> |
Collana | Studies in the evolution of language |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Historical linguistics - Africa Anthropological linguistics - Africa Sociolinguistics - Africa |
ISBN |
1-383-04519-4
0-19-156767-1 1-282-26861-9 9786612268618 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815209603321 |
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
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Durorp-English dictionary / / compiled by Ekpe Inyang |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
Disciplina | 496 |
Altri autori (Persone) | InyangEkpe <1963-> |
Soggetto topico | Bantu languages |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 9956-791-74-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Cover ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Purpose""; ""Aa ""; ""Bb ""; ""Chch ""; ""Dd ""; ""Ee ""; ""Ff ""; ""Ii ""; ""Jj ""; ""Kk ""; ""Mm ""; ""Nn ""; ""Oo ""; ""Pp ""; ""Qq ""; ""Rr ""; ""Ss ""; ""Tt ""; ""Uu ""; ""Ww ""; ""Yy ""; ""Back cover "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462857203321 |
Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2013 | ||
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Durorp-English dictionary / / compiled by Ekpe Inyang |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
Disciplina | 496 |
Altri autori (Persone) | InyangEkpe <1963-> |
Soggetto topico | Bantu languages |
ISBN | 9956-791-74-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Cover ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Purpose""; ""Aa ""; ""Bb ""; ""Chch ""; ""Dd ""; ""Ee ""; ""Ff ""; ""Ii ""; ""Jj ""; ""Kk ""; ""Mm ""; ""Nn ""; ""Oo ""; ""Pp ""; ""Qq ""; ""Rr ""; ""Ss ""; ""Tt ""; ""Uu ""; ""Ww ""; ""Yy ""; ""Back cover "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787650003321 |
Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2013 | ||
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Durorp-English dictionary / / compiled by Ekpe Inyang |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
Disciplina | 496 |
Altri autori (Persone) | InyangEkpe <1963-> |
Soggetto topico | Bantu languages |
ISBN | 9956-791-74-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Cover ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright page ""; ""Purpose""; ""Aa ""; ""Bb ""; ""Chch ""; ""Dd ""; ""Ee ""; ""Ff ""; ""Ii ""; ""Jj ""; ""Kk ""; ""Mm ""; ""Nn ""; ""Oo ""; ""Pp ""; ""Qq ""; ""Rr ""; ""Ss ""; ""Tt ""; ""Uu ""; ""Ww ""; ""Yy ""; ""Back cover "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826391503321 |
Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2013 | ||
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